Fortune writer Chanelle Bessette recently interviewed Eric Shoup of Ancestry.com. Eric is the Executive Vice President of Product at the company. Eric talks about creating the “ancestral graph of mankind, we’re all ultimately connected” and the “challenge is growing the family history category” at Ancestry.com.

Dick Eastman has been involved in genealogy for more than 35 years. He
has worked in the computer industry for more than 40 years in hardware,
software, and managerial positions. By the early 1970s, Dick was already
using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. He
built his first home computer in 1980.